Installing phpmyadmin with php52

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:17, John Korchok wrote:

> I'm trying to install phpmyadmin on a machine running drupal6. This means that php52 is installed instead of php5.
>  
> Phpmyadmin requires php5-gd. As soon as php5-gd starts to install, it tries to download php 5.3.3. Is there any way to avoid this? Phpmyadmin also requires php5-mbstring, php5-mcrypt, php5-mysql and php5-zip, all of which depend on php5 rather than php52. Is there a flag to install the dependencies without php getting upgraded? I saw there was a ticket requesting a phpmyadmin variant for php52 (ticket # 23329), but the request was turned down.

php4 and php52 are obsolete and not very interesting anymore. :/ I would much rather see drupal updated to use php 5.3 than expend further energy on old versions of php.


> On a related question, is drupal6 ever being upgrading to php5? It's been compatible for quite a while now...

Perhaps these are relevant:

https://trac.macports.org/query?status=!closed&summary=~drupal